The Dead Sea 'New Jerusalem' Text

Contents and Contexts

Lorenzo DiTommaso (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

243 Seiten

2005
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-148799-6 (ISBN)

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This volume is the first study of the Aramaic Dead Sea New Jerusalem text conducted in light of the complete extent of the preserved manuscript copies and with full reference to previous reconstructions. In addition to presenting an edition of the Cave Four copies (4Q554, 4Q554a, 4Q555), Lorenzo DiTommaso discusses the genre of the NJ, the order of its material, and its antecedents and parallels in ancient urban design. He suggests that its New Jerusalem is not a heavenly city and that categories of earthly and heavenly Jerusalems perhaps impose an inappropriate taxonomy on the various ancient Jewish and Christian expressions of the New Jerusalem. The author demonstrates that the NJ shares virtually no points of contact with the Temple Scroll, and that neither text is likely dependent on the other. He also argues that the New Jerusalem of the NJ is neither an eschatological focus of pilgrimage nor a mustering point for the final battle, that the text's eschatological horizon is established by a review of history and anticipates a time when once-hostile nations are humbled, and that it was conceivably composed in the first third of the second century BCE, shortly before the Maccabean revolt.

is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Montréal.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.10.2005
Reihe/Serie	Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism
Verlagsort	Tübingen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	166 x 242 mm
Gewicht	505 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Cave Four • Dead Sea Scrolls • HC/Religion/Theologie/Judentum • New Jerusalem • Qumran
ISBN-10	3-16-148799-0 / 3161487990
ISBN-13	978-3-16-148799-6 / 9783161487996
Zustand	Neuware